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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

1 Chronicles 5:3 → Genesis 46:8-9

Echo

Later text

1 Chronicles 5:3BSB

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Earlier text

Genesis 46:8-9BSB

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

Significance

Genesis 46:8-9 records that "Reuben, Jacob's firstborn" went to Egypt with his sons "Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi." 1 Chronicles 5:3 reproduces this identical list: "The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi." The Chronicler preserves the exact names but embeds them within a theological commentary (5:1-2) explaining why Reuben's birthright was transferred to Joseph's sons despite his firstborn status: "because Reuben defiled his father's bed." This interpretive framing, absent from Genesis 46, transforms the bare genealogical data into a lesson about the consequences of Reuben's sin (Gen 35:22) and the principle that election does not automatically follow birth order.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler reproduces Genesis 46:8-9's Reubenite roster verbatim but prefaces it with the verdict Genesis only narrates (1 Chr 5:1-2): the firstborn forfeited the birthright through his father's-bed sin, the birthright passed to Joseph's sons, yet the ruler comes from Judah — the patriarchal datum restated from the far side of the history it set in motion.